Apple uses a lot of open source technologies, but their platforms as a whole are still proprietary, and is used to drive sales to its up-market computers.
The Slot 1 business was just a temporary thing, pretty much forced by the need for high-clock cache. The silicon manufacturing technology did not yet allow for affordable large on-die cache. I thought the slot/socket adapter was very good idea. I don't think such an equivalent was offered for adapting a socketed Athlon into a slot, which early Athlons had slots, later it was socketed.
Stability of AM2/AM2+/AM3 is one of biggest AMD's advantage over LGA775 and should be put forward.
What do you mean by "should be put forward"?
Anyway, it would be nice to have a broader upgrade range. While AMD's pattern is superior, it's still far from ideal, especially when they too have socket variations. There will always be newer memory standards, and I think that's going to cause problems because that means a different socket for the AMD, still meaning a new board is needed, even if the chipset is otherwise compatible.
POWER isn't PowerPC. I don't think it's worth keeping two architectures in parallel like that for long term, not with Apple's current volume. Apple doesn't make that many Xserves last I heard, something like tens of thousands per year, when the other server companies exceed that by as much as 20x. IIRC, HP was selling 200k 1U servers when Apple sold 12k 1U servers. I don't know what IBM's numbers are, but POWER-based workstations and servers were a lot more expensive than Apple's stuff.
If 1 = $0.15 and (infinite?) = $15, then why is Verizon billing anyone $1100. The max bill should be $15.
I agree that phone companies are shady in general, but I don't think that's a good argument. The $15 plan is something you have to subscribe to. Why would anyone buy an unlimited plan if there was no threat of ever going over that cost if they chose not to buy that plan? That's kind of the risk a person takes by going with a lower cost plan.
I have not confirmed it, but last I heard, things like SMS were consigned to a little-used side band in the GSM protocol and the like, not a regular data packet. That side band is supposedly being heavily overloaded.
I think it's annoying that Google removes symbols, and I think other search engines do too. It makes doing searches for specific things very hard. Heck "10-200" (in quotes) won't give you only exact matches, it will return any page with 10 and 100 in it rather than the specific string. Advanced mode exact string search didn't do me any good last I tried it. It's important for looking up very specific things, like model numbers or part numbers and any thing that doesn't match exactly isn't relevant to the search.
You have the patience to spend several hours to explaining malware? I'm surprised you found someone that's willing to sit there that long and listen to someone drone on about it.
I don't have a problem with firewalls, Norton & McAffee are the problem ones. There are a few good free ones that have done me pretty well. I don't understand why Windows firewall is somehow good enough.
Every chargeback costs the merchant about $15, it's quite a disincentive for trying to charge $10 or so on a monthly rate when it comes back as a $15 penalty instead.
Yes, ditto on the suggestion to contest it with your card company. If you've already made a good-faith effort to settle it with XM, then contest the transaction every month and it should be reversed. Every chargeback costs $15 or so, it's quite a disincentive for trying to charge $10 or so on a monthly rate when it comes back as a $15 instead, and if there are too many chargebacks (I heard 1% chargebacks are not tolerated), the merchant account gets pulled. Once it's pulled, it's hard to convince a bank to give you a merchant account.
The XM merger will have a hard time going through on other accounts, The Sirius CEO got a very lucrative of a bonus, too lucrative for a company in trouble: here, and XM admitted that some 40% of their retransmission antennas were not located in their approved locations, heights or power ratings: here.
The company that wins is not always, and is probably rarely the one that first introduces the idea. First-mover advantage really doesn't seem to exist. The advantage goes to who is the most ruthless in getting it to market.
More reason to want FOSS to have nothing to do with BB
I think that misses the point. Once you put out an idea, you cannot control what others do with it. You can try to be as far as you want from your opponent, whether you give away or sell your idea or product, you lose control of how it is used and for what it is used. In some ways, GPL does force changes to be released (assuming it's from an organization in a country that respects copyright laws), but that usually doesn't work for custom userland software that uses the OSS software system. On the up side, you usually aren't legally or responsible with what other people do with your idea or product either.
They got started by making a precision audio oscillator and expanded into other lab test equipment and had had a series of innovative designs in that arena.
Having the first handheld programmable calculator, and the first symbolic calculator didn't hurt either.
Egg on face, it wasn't necessarily life that was the only problem (though it was one), but other factors too, such as cost of manufacture or cost of operation.
I think the new prefixes are irritating, and that the people that made the binary prefixes are of the OCD type. It is best to ignore the OCD types. It usually doesn't really matter to be that precise in talking data storage capacities.
I really don't think it's going to make any difference. If they released another OS three years after Vista, that means that the Core Duo will be about four years old. I think it's safe to say that a four year old computer is generally not worth the hassle of a new operating system. If it gets Vista-like delays, then that system would be six years old.
Let's be fair, Microsoft already said they were working on a Zune phone a few months before Steve announced his phone. They didn't say what it would be like though.
Actually, MS has been ahead of Apple in this market for at least 11 years starting with Windows CE.
That really depends on how far back you want to go and how long you want to carry out an argument. Windows CE didn't exist until about five years after the original Newton.
So, do you sympathize with the photographer? If we go by the anti-copyright crowd, she doesn't have a case. It is "copycat" art. Or, are we going to protect her intellectual property?
Keep in mind that an ethical position is not a legal position. Maybe one can say that she shouldn't have a case, but legally, she probably does have a legitimate case and could win if she had the means to fight it.
Also, Berne convention means that a copyright in one country effectively translates to other countries, meaning that a company in the UK violating the copyrights of a person in the US is still a violation. The hard part is enforcement because she'd have to take the issue up in the UK court system, which is probably why said photographer is taking a grass-roots route instead. I think that's a better way.
As it is, weather management really hasn't been rigorously tested or proven. Because of the number of uncontrollable factors, it's hard to tell if the money spent doing that is making any real difference.
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I value my time, and don't want to waste 25% of my entertainment time watching adverts, so I simply don't watch TV.
With many DVRs, it's not that hard to skip them.
Apple uses a lot of open source technologies, but their platforms as a whole are still proprietary, and is used to drive sales to its up-market computers.
The Slot 1 business was just a temporary thing, pretty much forced by the need for high-clock cache. The silicon manufacturing technology did not yet allow for affordable large on-die cache. I thought the slot/socket adapter was very good idea. I don't think such an equivalent was offered for adapting a socketed Athlon into a slot, which early Athlons had slots, later it was socketed.
Stability of AM2/AM2+/AM3 is one of biggest AMD's advantage over LGA775 and should be put forward.
What do you mean by "should be put forward"?
Anyway, it would be nice to have a broader upgrade range. While AMD's pattern is superior, it's still far from ideal, especially when they too have socket variations. There will always be newer memory standards, and I think that's going to cause problems because that means a different socket for the AMD, still meaning a new board is needed, even if the chipset is otherwise compatible.
POWER isn't PowerPC. I don't think it's worth keeping two architectures in parallel like that for long term, not with Apple's current volume. Apple doesn't make that many Xserves last I heard, something like tens of thousands per year, when the other server companies exceed that by as much as 20x. IIRC, HP was selling 200k 1U servers when Apple sold 12k 1U servers. I don't know what IBM's numbers are, but POWER-based workstations and servers were a lot more expensive than Apple's stuff.
If 1 = $0.15 and (infinite?) = $15, then why is Verizon billing anyone $1100. The max bill should be $15.
I agree that phone companies are shady in general, but I don't think that's a good argument. The $15 plan is something you have to subscribe to. Why would anyone buy an unlimited plan if there was no threat of ever going over that cost if they chose not to buy that plan? That's kind of the risk a person takes by going with a lower cost plan.
I have not confirmed it, but last I heard, things like SMS were consigned to a little-used side band in the GSM protocol and the like, not a regular data packet. That side band is supposedly being heavily overloaded.
I think it's annoying that Google removes symbols, and I think other search engines do too. It makes doing searches for specific things very hard. Heck "10-200" (in quotes) won't give you only exact matches, it will return any page with 10 and 100 in it rather than the specific string. Advanced mode exact string search didn't do me any good last I tried it. It's important for looking up very specific things, like model numbers or part numbers and any thing that doesn't match exactly isn't relevant to the search.
You have the patience to spend several hours to explaining malware? I'm surprised you found someone that's willing to sit there that long and listen to someone drone on about it.
I don't have a problem with firewalls, Norton & McAffee are the problem ones. There are a few good free ones that have done me pretty well. I don't understand why Windows firewall is somehow good enough.
I should have stated one of the lines like this:
Every chargeback costs the merchant about $15, it's quite a disincentive for trying to charge $10 or so on a monthly rate when it comes back as a $15 penalty instead.
Yes, ditto on the suggestion to contest it with your card company. If you've already made a good-faith effort to settle it with XM, then contest the transaction every month and it should be reversed. Every chargeback costs $15 or so, it's quite a disincentive for trying to charge $10 or so on a monthly rate when it comes back as a $15 instead, and if there are too many chargebacks (I heard 1% chargebacks are not tolerated), the merchant account gets pulled. Once it's pulled, it's hard to convince a bank to give you a merchant account.
The XM merger will have a hard time going through on other accounts, The Sirius CEO got a very lucrative of a bonus, too lucrative for a company in trouble: here, and XM admitted that some 40% of their retransmission antennas were not located in their approved locations, heights or power ratings: here.
The company that wins is not always, and is probably rarely the one that first introduces the idea. First-mover advantage really doesn't seem to exist. The advantage goes to who is the most ruthless in getting it to market.
More reason to want FOSS to have nothing to do with BB
I think that misses the point. Once you put out an idea, you cannot control what others do with it. You can try to be as far as you want from your opponent, whether you give away or sell your idea or product, you lose control of how it is used and for what it is used. In some ways, GPL does force changes to be released (assuming it's from an organization in a country that respects copyright laws), but that usually doesn't work for custom userland software that uses the OSS software system. On the up side, you usually aren't legally or responsible with what other people do with your idea or product either.
I did find this article:
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http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4200/is_2
but I still would like to find another source to confirm this.
Apparently, some think HP made the first personal computer:
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http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.12/mustread.
They got started by making a precision audio oscillator and expanded into other lab test equipment and had had a series of innovative designs in that arena.
Having the first handheld programmable calculator, and the first symbolic calculator didn't hurt either.
Egg on face, it wasn't necessarily life that was the only problem (though it was one), but other factors too, such as cost of manufacture or cost of operation.
It would help if you got your facts straight first. Edison did not invent the light bulb. He merely made one that lasted long enough to be useful.
OK, so it touches on different laws. Even that isn't Google's fault. Weeding out copyright infringement isn't the search engine's responsibility.
I think the new prefixes are irritating, and that the people that made the binary prefixes are of the OCD type. It is best to ignore the OCD types. It usually doesn't really matter to be that precise in talking data storage capacities.
I really don't think it's going to make any difference. If they released another OS three years after Vista, that means that the Core Duo will be about four years old. I think it's safe to say that a four year old computer is generally not worth the hassle of a new operating system. If it gets Vista-like delays, then that system would be six years old.
Let's be fair, Microsoft already said they were working on a Zune phone a few months before Steve announced his phone. They didn't say what it would be like though.
Actually, MS has been ahead of Apple in this market for at least 11 years starting with Windows CE.
That really depends on how far back you want to go and how long you want to carry out an argument. Windows CE didn't exist until about five years after the original Newton.
So, do you sympathize with the photographer? If we go by the anti-copyright crowd, she doesn't have a case. It is "copycat" art. Or, are we going to protect her intellectual property?
Keep in mind that an ethical position is not a legal position. Maybe one can say that she shouldn't have a case, but legally, she probably does have a legitimate case and could win if she had the means to fight it.
Also, Berne convention means that a copyright in one country effectively translates to other countries, meaning that a company in the UK violating the copyrights of a person in the US is still a violation. The hard part is enforcement because she'd have to take the issue up in the UK court system, which is probably why said photographer is taking a grass-roots route instead. I think that's a better way.
As it is, weather management really hasn't been rigorously tested or proven. Because of the number of uncontrollable factors, it's hard to tell if the money spent doing that is making any real difference.
I think this is for moving loose rock & sand, not excavating through solid material.